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from their journeys, and the pofition of the ways, taken by 
two good compafles, the diltance of Tadmor from y^kppo is 
about 150 Englifi miles, and the courfe S. S. E. or rather 
foraewhat more Ibutherly, confidering the variation of the 
compafs, which is above half a point to the weft in thefe 
parts. 
In a fecond voyage, they fet out from Aleppo for I'admor on 
Mkhaelmafs day 1(^9 1, being in all 30 men well armed, 
having obtained a promife of fecurity from AJJyne the king of 
t\iz Arabs ^ and one of his own people for a guide^ this day 
their road pointed S. by E. and in four hours they came to a 
fountain called Cophir-Ahiad, leaving Old Alppo about an 
hour diftant on the right hand 5 here they made but a fhort 
ilay, and proceeded to a better fountain at the foot of a verv 
called Emgbir^ famous for the befl wheat, that is brought to 
Aleppo yth\s they made their firlt ftage; and mounting again 
in the morning about 5 o'clock, in lels than an hour, they 
pafTed by an uninhabited village, called Urghee, their road 
poinung as before thro' the fruitful plain 5 bur when they came 
to afcend the hills, where they entred the defart, and were to 
take their leave of mankind, at leafl of an inhabited country 
for feveral days, they had a troublefome paflage over looie 
great Hones, without any appearance of a road. Their guide 
had promifed to cofldufithcm thro' pjeafant groves and forefls, 
but no fuch thing appeared, unlefs you bellow that name on 
low withered /hrubs that grew on the way 5 all the country \s 
ftored with gazcls, the only food of a barbarous fort of people 
there, and who are no mean arcifts in their way 5 for they lie 
down behind the ftones, and /hoot them as they pafs along; 
and tho' their guns are very ordinary, exceeding heavy and 
thick, with match-locks, yet they are fuch excellent markfmen, 
that they kill many of them. After this, they 'oent their 
courfe to the S. E. or fomerhing more eaflerly, and came to 
the ilde of a bog, called Zerga^ where there was water enough, 
but neither palatable or wholefome. OBober iH, they depart- 
ed from Zerga^ about two hours before fun-rifing, and as foon 
as it was light, they had the profpea of a very high hill, 
which was to be the boundary of their journey that day, called 
Efree, and where they had excellent watery here they could 
difcern the foundations of a foacious city; and a piece of a 
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